TN proves students can make great gains

5:20 PM,
Nov. 9, 2013

Haslam

Written by

Gov. Bill Haslam

The 2013 results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), often called "the nation's report card," were released Thursday. NAEP matters because the test is gold-standard; externally administered, monitored and scored; and the only assessment that allows us to measure students across the entire country in an apples-to-apples way.

Tennessee had, by far, the most significant gains of any state in the country. In fact, the gains were larger than any other state has achieved in the 10 years that NAEP has been administered across all states. Additionally, Tennessee showed ...